Society is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTSOnly doubtful truths need defense.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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